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So called Black on Black violence and Police Violence have the same roots

So called Black on Black violence and Police Violence have the same roots

 “If the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do it to yourself.” wrote James Baldwin. At a vigil for six year- old Aniya Allen, who tragically died from her wounds April 19 after being shot in the head when her family was caught in the crossfire of a shootout, someone said, “We killed her.”  The inference was that the community, particularly the Black community…

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Easter, George Floyd and resistance

Easter, George Floyd and resistance

Today on Easter we are reminded that a political and spiritual revolutionary man of color was lynched by the State and as a form of resistance his followers refused to let him or his memory die. This day also happens to be the day that one of the most courageous Black men that ever lived Martin Luther King Jr was murdered by the United States government.  Ten months ago George Floyd was tortured…

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The police are the true outside agitators

The police are the true outside agitators

The blatant irony of people protesting peacefully against police violence being met by violence (police violence) should not escape anyone. The violence is winked at by the system, though concessions are being made and police are being suspended and fired and even charged because of the pressure of the protest. But much of the violence comes from the fact that the police as a group are hostile…

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People risked their health their lives to oppose another pandemic police violence

People risked their health their lives to oppose another pandemic police violence

  ALL FOUR OFFICERS CHARGED! WE ARE WINNING!

These old eyes of mine and the rest of us likely experienced in the campaign to get justice for George Floyd the beginning. The beginning of, if not a sea change, the swelling of a tide, that once it gets its bearing will spell if not the end, at least the prelude to the beginning of the end of the reign of capitalist organized terror.

People, a…

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George Floyd: System, Mike Freeman looking for a way to clear his murderers

George Floyd: System, Mike Freeman looking for a way to clear his murderers

Mike Freeman the Hennepin County prosecutor has never indicted a White cop for killing a Black person. That’s because Minneapolis is “upsouth”

In the midst of all the protests, riots and outrage stemming from the nearly public lynching of George Floyd, the system still steadfastly refuses to indict all of the cops involved in the horrific murder of George Floyd. And with good reason.  Hennepin…

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Minneapolis burned but it should not come as a surprise

Minneapolis burned but it should not come as a surprise

Minneapolis burned last night  and anyone with eyes could see it coming. Last night the nation got a foretaste of what is to come. A beaten down people will not stay beaten down forever, you can hold them down but they won’t be held down forever.

For those who choose to sit in judgement the sign in the picture of this post seeks to confront it, “merchandise can be replaced Black lives cannot”

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“You ain’t Black:” Joe Biden punks Black America

“You ain’t Black:” Joe Biden punks Black America

Joe Biden made no mistake when he told Charlamagne Tha God, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.” He in other words called Black Americans punks and disrespected them to their face, because he knows Black folks may not have enough self-respect, imagination, dignity, or guts to get off the Democratic party plantation— and to a lesser extent the…

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The gospel of Michael Jordan: thankfully the Last Dance is the last chapter

The gospel of Michael Jordan: thankfully the Last Dance is the last chapter

I was talking to my son about the failure of Michael Jordan to speak out about issues that were important to Black people and human beings in general.  My son pointed out that had Jordan spoken out it might not have mattered anyway. He also pointed out that Larry Bird who once described Jordan as “god” in a basketball uniform, would have been more effective if he had spoken out on racism. But…

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Mothers Day 2020:A not so Happy Mothers Day

Mothers Day 2020:A not so Happy Mothers Day

Charge nurse Ceila Marcos pictured with her grandson. She thought of others before herself and as result of aiding a patient with COVID-19 while not being properly outfitted with PPE at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center died from the disease on April 17

  Happy Mother’s Day seems oxymoronic this May 10 because there are a lot tears mixed with the joy of celebrating mothers. It’s as if we are…

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Denis Goldberg: Anti Aparthied soldier was a stalwart to the end

Denis Goldberg: Anti Aparthied soldier was a stalwart to the end

Goldberg is pictured here with his friend Nelson Mandela. He and Mandela were convicted of trying to overthrow the Apartheid state.

A real revolutionary passed two days ago. Denis Goldberg was a Jewish South African viewed as White by the oppressive Apartheid government, he was a member of the (ANC) African National Congress. He proved that there are some friends that stick closer than a brother…

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ESPN projection of NFL draftees amounted to racist propaganda

ESPN projection of NFL draftees amounted to racist propaganda

“Mom Camilia fought drug addiction.” was listed on a chart outlining the background of Tee Higgins, and projected on to the screens of the record setting audience that viewing the 2020 NFL draft. Social media took issue with ESPN’s insistence on getting in folks’ business, while the mainstream press kept mainly silent.

This occurred because the sports network, while providing entertainment and a…

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The NFL draft: pimps players and the plantation

The NFL draft: pimps players and the plantation

  So what do Tee Higgins mother’s struggles have to do with his entrance into the National Football League?  After all, his mother’s struggles are not a stat for the world to peruse they are her business. But upon close examination her business is a part of the NFL’s business as they seek to promote and project her and her son as the “OTHER” possessed of other worldly skill and talent and…

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Quacks, hacks the whacked and sacrifice

Quacks, hacks the whacked and sacrifice

The right wing  religious fanatics, pro gun fanatics, hard core racists, libertarians and hard core Trump supporters who protested state lock downs around the country last week are on to something. So is Dr Oz who suggested that school children are expendable. And so is the Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman that offered to open her city and use its workers as guinea pig.  And so was Dr Phil the…

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US/corporate response to COVID-19 crisis a crime against humanity

Last week it was revealed that an election judge, Revall Burke of Chicago died from COVID-19 April first, only weeks after he had been worked the Illinois primary. He like many of the other victims of this novel coronavirus did not have to die! But his death and the deaths of tens of thousands and sickness of hundreds of thousands of workers in the US were caused not just by this deadly…

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The system as the anti- Easter: in the aftermath of COVID-19 it should not be resurrected

As crazy and as wild as it may sound to the non religious,  the irreligious, agnostic and the atheist Easter today has relevance to us all. Clear thinking, honest, rational people  with the ability to see and pay attention have to agree that the government’s  inefficient handling of the COVID-19 crisis, while revealing its cavalier attitude and lack of concern for our lives,  is cause for a…

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The great betrayal: Capitalism as Judas

If you work for a living and are on the front lines having to show up for work during this coronavirus crisis you don’t have to be religious to identify with Jesus, who went to the cross not because God deemed it so but because he was sold out by Judas: for money! Like Jesus many of us thought the bosses (Judas) was our friend many thought the company(Judas) cared about us and that they had a…

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Independence Day again and yet again we are not free

Independence Day again and yet again we are not free

Frederick Douglass delivered a speech, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July,” which to this day serves as a pertinent reminder of the hypocrisy of a nation declaring its freedom and independence while holding other human beings in chains and pretending they were not human but chattel!

      Independence means to break free. The colonial settlers in the US led by its educated and moneyed class…

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